Illusions of Reality by Gabriel P Weisberg
Capturing realistic images on canvas has been a staple aspiration of western art since the Renaissance development of scientific perspective. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, animated by the invention of photography and cinema, artists began attempting not only to paint realistically but also to create images that projected the ethical content of the world around them. Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918 traces the development of Naturalism within painting, literature, theater, photography and film, and the relationship among these art forms, paying attention to the way painters such as Jules Adler, Thomas Anshutz, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Emile Claus, Thomas Eakins, Christian Krohg, Gari Melchers, Jules-Alexis Muenier, Fernand Pelez, Jean-Andre Rixens and Anders Zorn, filmmakers such as Andre Antoine, Albert Capellani and Leon Lhermitte and photographers such as Peter Henry Emerson, used Naturalism as a vehicle for understanding the lives of ordinary people at a time of great social transformation. Practitioners of Naturalism frequently concerned themselves with the social ills created by industrialization, as well as the social responses to these problems in both public education and religion. Likewise, the transformation brought about by industrialization led many artists to focus on the loss of traditional agrarian culture as well as the political upheaval caused by working conditions in the factories. Technological advances in art, from the development of photography in the first half of the nineteenth century to the emergence of film toward the end of the century, contributed to the interaction among art forms and the attention toward social conditions. Edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, with essays by Weisberg, David Jackson, Willa Silverman and Maartje de Haan, Illusions of Reality offers a fresh interpretation of how Naturalist artists, and the aesthetic they espoused, attempted to understand and explain the rapid and profound changes of their time.
The Author: Dr. Gabriel P. Weisberg is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota and was recently Regents Fellow at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Dr. Weisberg has published widely on French art of the nineteenth century including The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900, Art Nouveau Bing, and currently Beyond Impressionism, The Naturalist Impulse. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has served as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9789061539414 |
| ISBN 10 | 9061539412 |
| Title | Illusions of Reality |
| Author | Gabriel P Weisberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Mercatorfonds/Van Gogh Museum |
| Year published | 2010-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |